Collectively, small lifestyle changes can make a huge impact on the environment-and your life. Looking for happiness and health? What’s good for the environment is also, it turns out, great for you. Here’s a collection of tips from the No Impact community.
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I just barely finished the Documentary and I was almost drawn to tears. This year I have felt a strong pull to re-connect myself to nature and to take steps to reduce my environmental impact. I keep the lights off as much as I can, I drive as little as possible, etc. After this video I will step things up a little by making most my trips by bike, I will study sustainable living with extreme conviction and I will do all I can to take steps to eliminate my impact. I just want to say thank you so much for doing this. It has helped me to grow as a person. Thank you.
This post was submitted by Jeremy Smith.
Being in the military it isn’t always easy to have time or resources to do things the Green Way but my family and I are working towards it. This year I bought my electric car and the gas van stays in the driveway whenever possible. I began riding my bike to the mall for me to cathc the bus and my wife uses the gas car for 95% of our driving needs.
We have made our home as energy efficient as practical for the time being. I will replace the appliances with more efficient ones when the wear out. I have put up a few solar panels and look to get a wind generator soon.
Getting juiced up!. If you really want to feel the best part of going green you need to experiance juicing fruits and vegies. If you want to eliminate many diseases and prevent them from controling your life then simply transition your diet into 75% fruits and vegies via juice. You will end up with a nice green juice from the earth and it will give you the energy you need without the packagin, sodium or preservitives. See the fat sick and nearly dead video and web site.
Our lives are forming up to a healthy, clean and fun lifestyle that we should all attempt to obtain.
Small increments of change make a large difference when mixed in with time.
This post was submitted by Todd Grahek.
In 2005, my partner and I moved just outside Ukiah, CA to create our own permaculture demonstration site. We built a 600 square foot passive solar strawbale/cob home from mostly on-site or local materials and installed renewable energy, rainwater catchment, and food systems. We also bought an electric bicycle, a Prius, and a GEM electric vehicle. Altogether, we calculated that our carbon footprint is around 4 metric tons, about 10% of the US average. We are growing about half of our food, and expect to grow more as the trees in our food forests and other plantings mature. The only fossil fuel used on site is 10 gallons of propane used for cooking. Our energy comes from the sun through passive solar, a solar oven, photovoltaics, a tiny microhydro generator (during the Winter), and wood for our wood stove and cob oven/stove. My partner is a school teacher and we have most of the typical middle class conveniences.
This post was submitted by Rain Tenaqiya.
In 2005, my partner and I moved to Ukiah, CA to create a permaculture demonstration site. We built a 600 ft2, passive solar, strawbale/cob home from mostly on-site or local materials and installed renewable energy, rainwater catchment, and food systems. We also bought an electric bike, a Prius, and a GEM electric vehicle. Our energy technology includes passive solar design, photovoltaics, a solar water heater, a solar oven, a tiny microhydro system (Winter only), and wood for our wood stove and cob oven/stove. The only fossil fuel used on site is ten gallons of propane annually for cooking. We calculated our carbon footprint at around 4 metric tons, about 10% of the US average. We currently grow about half of our food, and expect this to increase as the trees in our food forests mature. My partner is a schoolteacher and we enjoy most of the modern middle-class conveniences.
This post was submitted by Rain Tenaqiya.
Hi Guys
Yeah I’m just lowering my impact by not buying your DVD. There’s really no reason to produce all this trash and let it be shipped round the world to watch a movie ONCE, right? Why is there no online version?
Best
Marc
This post was submitted by Marc Walser.